[game_edu] looking for support data

[Mike Reddy]

 Susan,

Some anecdotal information for you. This year's admissions for our
rather small Computing Department had 25 Games Development students, and
23 Forensic Computing students. The "mainstream" traditional computing
courses have been reducing, as per a national trend in the UK, so
without the specialised vocational courses, we would have been looking
at serious problems. NOTE There are more students on the games course in
the first year than any other single award. For bigger schools, having
the diversity can only be a positive, because popularity of awards is
variable.

I am also an external examiner for the Open University, on an access
course in introductory robotics, and colleagues there have been talking
to me about developing a games-related course; probably because they see
this as a way to encourage recruitment into other OU courses.

--
Dr. Mike Reddy, Future Technology, Games Development and A.I.,
Department of Computing,
Newport Business School, University of Wales, Newport, Allt-yr-yn
Campus,
PO Box 180 Newport South Wales NP20 5XR
Tel: +44 (0) 1633 432452 Fax: +44 (0)1633 432307 Mob: +44 (0)7971 170
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Email: mike.reddy @ newport.ac.uk (remove spaces)